OT: Misc. Ramblings.

[Hank]

Robatoy wrote in news:22ce5456-1565-4774-b044- [e-mail]:

Nope. If you thought life sucked; that would make you a lefty.

[Hank]

"Lee Michaels" wrote in news:gpWdnUoqfojUKyjanZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

I have dark hair on only two areas of my body. The area you can see is my ears.

[DS]

No, that was Marx, not Max.

[Charlie Self]

[e-mail]:

Yeah, so does my local hospital, which is the same place that attempted to charge my mother 10 bucks for two generic aspirin some years ago. Oops. She had recently retired as acting adminstrator of a small Westchester County (NY) hospital; the admins locally were not pleased to have an elderly woman tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine. Or maybe I can get it from the local hotshot ortho surgeon who some nine years ago screwed up my right knee, when I had no insurance and ended up paying $9,000+ for surgery I've since discovered costs about $2,300 for the insured. Little things: $38 for an Ace bandage that sells at full retail at the local drugstore for $6.95 or some such. If I remember correctly, the VA charged me something under $800 to correct the mess a few years later.

Oh, yeah. The U.S. medical system is wonderful. Bullshit. 'Splain to me why the hotshot surgeons of one type or another are worth five million bucks a year, and the adminstrators in large hospitals get nearly as much.

The system is broken.

[Leon]

That would be "gooder'n regler english.

[Robatoy]

I'm glad yous guys hassit all figgurred outs.

[Hank]

Charlie Self wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Yo Charles, Good thing you is a vet.

[Peter Huebner]

Yes, and that, more than the accents, is mostly responsible for the utter garbled-ness of the communication attempts. I have had connections to 'helplines' from 3-com and HP that were just impossible to communicate through, the distortion & hacking was so bad. I am actually quite used to dealing with Indian accents and have no problem with them in 'Real Life'. But those VoIP lines stink - many if not most of them.

-P.